I don't.<p>9-to-5 is fine. Not <i>great</i>, just fine. There's a lot of money sloshing around in corporate America, and it's pretty easy to tap that pipeline. A lot of people do pretty well by having a "day job" to pay the bills, and then working as a creative in their remaining time.<p>While I am loath to crap on your dreams, because I was a kid once, and have some of my own now, but avoiding the truth won't help you. There is nothing special about you. Statistically speaking, there is nothing special about anybody. Artists get paid peanuts in our society, because they are a dime a dozen, and a lot of them produce mediocre crap. None of them make it big, until someone else with business skills finds a talented one and works out a way to leech off their skills. Rarely, the genius also has the business skills, and promotes their own work.<p>If you don't have skills in math, or even like it, you will not be able to handle back-end programming or have a deep understanding of 3-D rendering. If you want to be a creative, you must also develop a "money skill" for your day job. In that vein, programming is a decent day job, but be aware that your progress in it will be limited by lack of interest in math.<p>It sounds like you have already figured out that you don't want the thing that you <i>do</i> to define your self image. That's fine. But everyone has to pull at least some of their own weight on this planet, one way or another. You won't get what you want unless you help other people get what they want. If you happen to know of a thing that people want and know how to provide it better than anyone else, that's great: gather some investment capital, start a business, and be your own boss. If you don't have a clear idea on how you're going to make enough money to pay your planet Earth rent, you'll have to do what everyone else does, and take a job until you figure it out.<p>You might never get there. That's okay; a lot of people never do. There are roughly seven billion of us that have <i>no idea</i> how to break free from the crowd and be individually awesome.<p>To put this in perspective, I wrote a novel. It took a few years to finish. I think it's pretty good, but that's because I write what I like. It has earned me about $25 in revenue so far, and probably won't ever bring in another dime. My day job has brought in more than a million dollars over the years--most of which was spent the week after the checks cleared--and it most likely will still be there tomorrow.<p>Stay in business school. If you like engineering, and can't math hard enough to do it yourself, learn how to manage engineers. Be creative from 5:01 PM to 8:59 AM.